Jacqueline Stewart

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Jacqueline Najuma Stewart [1] is a University of Chicago professor of cinema studies [2] and director of the nonprofit arts organization, Black Cinema House. [3] She has written about the history of African Americans in filmmaking in Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity (2005), co-authored, L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (2015), and with Charles Musser co-curated the DVD set Pioneers of African-American Cinema (2016). [4] Stewart has served on the National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) of the Library of Congress and chaired the NFPB Diversity Task Force. [5] In 2005, she founded the South Side Home Movie Project, which collects, preserves, as a cultural and historical resource, the homemade films of residents of South Side, Chicago, together with interviews of creators. [6]

In September 2019, Stewart also became the first African-American host of Turner Classic Movies, as host for Silent Sunday Nights. [5] Taking a sabbatical from the university, in 2021 she was named the inaugural artistic director at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. [7] [8]

Stewart was raised on Chicago's South Side and graduated from Kenwood Academy High School. [9] She received her BA from Stanford University, and her AM and PhD both from the University of Chicago (UC). [10] She taught at the university from 1999 to 2006, and then moved to an associate professorship at Northwestern University, returning to UC in 2013. [11] In 2018, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [12] In 2021, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. [11]

On July 6, 2022, the Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures announced Stewart's appointment as director and president of the institution. [13] [14]

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  1. ↑ Phillips, Michael (September 2, 2016). "Jacqueline Stewart, champion for African-American cinema". Chicago Tribune . Archived from the original on November 24, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Jacqueline Stewart - Department of Cinema and Media Studies". University of Chicago. Archived from the original on April 24, 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Graham Foundation > Events". Graham Foundation. Archived from the original on December 11, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2017. Jacqueline Stewart is ... co-curator of the L.A. Rebellion project at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Her film work in Chicago includes founding the South Side Home Movie Project and serving as Curator of Black Cinema House, a neighborhood-based film exhibition venue run by Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation.
  4. ↑ Jevens, Darel (January 8, 2017). "Top Chicago Critics Circle awards go to 'Moonlight,' 'La La Land'". Chicago Sun-Times . Archived from the original on June 15, 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  5. 1 2 Daniels, Karu F. (September 13, 2019). "Author, professor and film scholar Jacqueline Stewart becomes first African-American host of Turner Classic Movies". Daily News . New York City. Archived from the original on October 2, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  6. ↑ "About South Side Home Movie Project". SSHMP. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  7. ↑ Phillips, Michael (2020-12-21). "Jacqueline Stewart: A bright light of Chicago cinema heads west". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  8. ↑ Thompson, Anne (2020-10-20). "The Academy Museum Lucks Out with Chief Artistic Programmer Jacqueline Stewart". IndieWire. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  9. ↑ Alex, Sonya; er (2021-06-10). "From Hyde Park to Hollywood". South Side Weekly. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  10. ↑ "Jacqueline Stewart" (Press release). University of Chicago. n.d. Archived from the original on May 2, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  11. 1 2 "Jacqueline Stewart". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  12. ↑ "Jacqueline Stewart". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  13. ↑ "The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Appoints Jacqueline Stewart as New Director and President". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 6 July 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2022. he Board of Trustees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced the appointment of Jacqueline Stewart as the director and president of the institution. Stewart has served as chief artistic and programming officer of the Academy Museum since 2020.
  14. ↑ Jacobs, Julia (2022-07-06). "The Academy Museum Names Jacqueline Stewart as New Leader". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-07-12.
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